Scotland's Games Ecosystem Cluster
The BBC has announced a new event called Connected Studio, running in Glasgow on the 21st of February. Connected Studio has been created to bring together creative practitioners and developers with BBC staff to create, submit and develop ideas for innovative new features and formats, with BBC Staff and creators working together in an open …
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Last weekend the Scottish Game Jam took place and Guerilla Tea were invited to mentor at the Dundee chapter. It was a terrific event and we all had a great time, made even better by the fact that pizza was provided on the Friday night… The spirit of turning night into day and developing a …
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The Victoria & Albert museum is offering one game developer a unique opportunity to explore, experiment and engage with interactive entertainment in an entirely new way. The museum is advertising a game design residency, which will offer a game designer/developer the chance to work with the museum's resources and collections to create... something new. It's a …
Jamming isn’t the easiest of things. However you do it, undertaking a 48 hour journey to produce a game from conception to birth, isn’t easy and there are likely to be stumbling blocks along the way. The first of these is the brick wall that exhaustion causes. It’s just physically draining to work for long …
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As chief organiser Brian McDonald pressed play on the audio file you could see that everyone in the room wasn’t paying full attention. Only as the regular, pumping, sound of a heart-beat was heard throughout the room did the jammers taking place realise that this was it, this was the theme. Nothing added, nothing taken …
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Bips! is a brand new game from Ludometrics, out now for Facebook. So far so vanilla you might be thinking, but hold those there horses, cowboys n' girls. This is no regular release. Bips! has a long and noble history, with a pedigree as long as Metal Gear Solid cut scene (one of our New …
As we've mentioned in the recent past, the Global Games Jam is a 48 hour competition which challenges teams of developers to create a brand new, original game using whatever tools, hardware and platforms they so desire. It's a full on challenge, running continuously over two days and incorporates themes and bonus achievements for creating …
The chances are that you didn't know the Scottish Games Network, in addition to being your exclusive, comprehensive source for all that is good and true and exciting in the rapidly evolving interactive industry, was also a globally respected house of fashion. The Scottish Games Corner Shop offers a staggering array of fabulous, stylish and …
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So you're a games/apps/web/tech veteran. Now what? It might be a good opportunity to change up your weekend and help shape some young impressionable minds by volunteering as a mentor/judge at the much talked about Young Rewired State event happening in Aberdeen this weekend. The event challenges teenagers to come up with inventive coded solutions …
Despite hundreds, if not thousands of years of anecdotal sightings, reports and intriguingly blurry photos, there has been no definitive proof of the existence of mysterious cryptids such as the yeti, sasquatch or skunk ape. Reports of flying bipedal hominids are even rarer. One thinks of John Keel's experiences in Point Pleasant, Virginia, with the …